UK adventurer Sarah Outen is known for her amazing athletic ability and unending endurance. In 2009, she became the first and only woman (and the youngest person) to row solo across the Indian Ocean. But that wasn’t quite enough for the ambitious 25-year-old. On April 1, she set off on her latest expedition that will [...]
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Sarah Outen
Though it is far too early to pin down an exact number for the amount of money the Japan quake will cost insurers, initial estimates have started to surface for some of the hardest hit insurers and reinsurers. Swiss Re, the world’s second-biggest reinsurer, has estimated it will face claims of about $1.2 billion from [...]
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AIG,
AIR Worldwide,
EQECAT,
Joe Plumeri,
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QBE Insurance Group,
Swiss Re
It looks like Santa has been busy trying to improve his risk management this year. There are a lot of threats and just like all companies, Santa’s Workshop is not immune to new-age concerns. Given his giant list of who is naughty and who is nice, for example, he fears that a security breach that [...]
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Lloyd's of London,
Santa Claus,
Zurich
The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) acts as a middleman to help settle disputes between consumers and UK-based businesses providing financial services, such as banks and insurance companies. Every six months, the FOS publishes its complaints data and, according to the figures released yesterday, there was a sizable increase in the number of complaints in [...]
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Financial Ombudsman Service,
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